
Toronto CISO Community
Inner Circle
February 21, 2023 | Arcadian
February 21, 2023
Arcadian
Collaborate with your peers
Join Toronto's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Strategies for Establishing Cyber Judgment
Effective Communication and Balance of Risk, Value and Cost
Nurturing a Cyber Risk-Aware Culture
Toronto CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Samer Adi
Green Shield Canada
CISO

Michael Dundas
Manulife
AVP, Cyber Protection

Sandra Liepkalns
Choice Properties REIT
VP, Information Security & Data Governance

Ranjika Manamperi
Ontario Power Generation
VP Cybersecurity & CISO
Agenda
February 21, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Enabling Digital Cyber-Risk Management

Natalia Bakhtina
Director of Cybersecurity and IT Risk Management
BFL Canada

Teodor Pana
Director of Cyber Security / ISO
Saint Elizabeth Health Care

Salman Ashraf
Director, Corporate Information Security Officer (CISO)
The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation

Nagesh Chawla
AVP, Enterprise Architecture and Information Security
Foresters Financial

Raghavendra Kumar
Divisional Vice President Security Architecture, Engineering & IAM
Hudson's Bay Co

Maryam Asgariazad
Director Information Security
Alterna Savings

Reid Tatoris
Director of Product
Cloudflare

Simon Brown
Senior Director, Cybersecurity & Risk Management
Canopy Growth Corporation

Puroo Maheshwari
VP, Security Engineering
Thomson Reuters
A growing number of companies are willing to increase their risk appetites to get ahead in the wake of unpredictable environments and innovative technologies’ potential to provide competitive advantages. CISOs must evolve more thoughtful risk-based vendor relationships, add requests for evidence of security controls, shift to resilience-based thinking, and work to get ahead of coming regulations.
CISOs should identify and proactively manage future risks by notifying decision-makers about new security strategies, norms, and technologies. It is imperative that relationships continue to evolve with senior leadership outside IT and security to ensure effective communication of organizational risk. Lastly, tracking and addressing skills gaps with creative talent management practices will help cybersecurity leaders stay ahead of the curve.
Strategies for Establishing Cyber Judgment
- How are you equipping decision-makers throughout the organization to independently make informed risk decisions rather than relying on automation?
- Many CISOs have turned toward the organization of cyber fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. What strategies to embed security within the organization have you tried? How are you changing mindsets and workflows?
- What methods have you found effective when communicating the balance of risk, value and cost?
Nurturing a Cyber Risk-Aware Culture
- Have you built a formal security behavior and culture program that targets end-users, executive leadership, and the board? How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing?
- What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? Are they more business focused or technology/security focused?
- How are you involving business leaders around cyber decision making to ensure joint responsibility?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
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